I suck at Excel, so pls be gentle. I'm working on a document that has two worksheets (W1 and W2).

W1 will have a list of products and labor roles and respective prices for each.

My boss wants it so that when a sales team enters product and project roles on W2, the cell where the price is entered will turn green or red based on whether the price aligns with what's listed on W1.

How do I do this?

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you can write a VLOOKUP into a conditional formatting rule

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... but conditional formatting is still needed. 👍🏽

Try asking ChatGPT too - AI is great for giving clear instructions for things like this.

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XLOOKUP, just YouTube that

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Buddy, don’t ask here. Use ChatGPT. It will change your life. Just give it a some sense of your data and what you want to achieve and 90% of the time it hits it out of the park

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Xlookup and conditional formatting, ask chatgpt it will give very clear and easy to follow steps

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If xlookup (…)=true… then use conditional formatting

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Could also do index match

Would it make more sense if the product entered automatically pulled the price from W1?

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